Confirmed: PS3 Is Region Free
September 25th, 2006 by Tobias Dahl in Business, Software
During an interview with Wired, Sony’s Phil Harrison confirmed that the PS3 will have region free games, including those downloaded from the PS3 online service. This means games from other territories can be played on a console, which is good news for the gamers primarily interested in importing Japanese games. Harrison also said that Blu-ray movies will not be region free.
A week ago, Nintendo made a PR bummer by announcing the Wii as region free, when in fact it wasn’t.
Read (Wired)
Tags: Business, Software
September 25th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Great news! (Finally)
but what about old games, PS2 & PS1.
Will people be able to play their JAP Copy of Grandia or USA Copy of Xenosaga on their EU/AUS PS3?
does anybody know? (apart from the boys and girls at sony)
September 25th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
That is good news for people who are getting a PS/3 … they need to hear something positive for a change.
September 25th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
I bet u only the downloadable shit is region free.
September 25th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
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September 25th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
I dooon’t belieieeve. I dooon’t belieiheieeieeeeeve… I like sony and ps3 but I dooon’t believe tadadada daaa
September 26th, 2006 at 1:30 am
Finaly, some good news about the PS3. ^_^
September 26th, 2006 at 2:03 am
hey Nintendogs, did you get that? Can you say, “region free”? Oh i forgot- you can’t! waaa ha haaa.
September 26th, 2006 at 2:23 am
Hey, Keil joy, can you say “my gaming system is less expensive than a washing machine+dryer?”, ah wait, you can’t.
September 26th, 2006 at 2:40 am
Hey it’s all good, Emerald. I mean at least Nintendo still stands to make a $248 profit off of every console sold, right?
September 26th, 2006 at 2:48 am
Hey, Emerald, i’m sure that the vibrate function on the Wiimote should keep you from feeling too masculine at night.
September 26th, 2006 at 3:48 am
Mmm, I love when fanboys can’t counter logic and instead resort to insults. It really shows that they can present and support an argument. >_>
Or that they have nothing.
September 26th, 2006 at 4:13 am
Come this holiday season when there’s roughly 1 PS3 to every 850 people the quote “or that they have nothing” will fit right in place. Can someone say forced launch?
September 26th, 2006 at 5:40 am
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September 26th, 2006 at 6:55 am
Sony ps3 with region free gaming .. jesus you’ve only just found that out . i knew that back in december 2005 an the pricing on the games probably will be the mentioned price .. still cheap for a 25gb bluray disc though
September 26th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
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September 26th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
Taylor2k that’s part of the PS3 problem. I don’t want to pay for the freaking media, I want to pay for the game! I shouldn’t have overpriced software beacuse they chose to use the rarest of media. Sure manufacturing prices will eventually go down, but I doubt that’ll lower retail prices for us on the games.
Games shouldn’t be treated as oil.
September 27th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
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September 27th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
Emerald is a sad man:P
September 28th, 2006 at 3:06 am
Thats also true solkre but some people in the world are silly for buying things overprice because it has a sony label on it
id rather wait until it comes down in price .. ps2 still showing some potential anyways (after god knows how many years its been out :P)
September 28th, 2006 at 4:23 am
Doom is a sad preteen. V_V
September 28th, 2006 at 6:45 am
erm ok .. enough with the argument of pointlessness .(unless your the same person)
October 7th, 2006 at 4:40 am
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January 18th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
woohoo and all that
but this only applies to those countries which have a semi-cordial relationship wid the japs seeing as a chinese dude with a jap ps3 tried to download some game and thereby became an interpol case bwahahaha
either way i get ma fake games for half a us dollar since i live in india you guys are welcome to your 60 dollar versions
oh yeah and suck it emerald your wii is going to absorb up all of nintendo’s licensing profit coz of the subsidy
maybe you should like buy the hello kitty version?
January 30th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
I’ve just got a PS3 unit and I believe it’s been imported from Japan. The unit seems to refuse to play PAL region DVDs when I insert them. Any assistance on this one would be appreciated.
January 31st, 2007 at 12:23 pm
USA versions of the PS3 will not play PAL encoded DVDs, at least with firmware 1.5. Perhaps when the EU version is released this will become possiable. Hopefully a hack in in the works…
February 10th, 2007 at 5:12 am
so ur tellin me that if i by a game from america it will be able to run on my ps3 in ireland
February 12th, 2007 at 1:03 am
i stay in new zealand and ive got a ps3 already.. it was imported from hongkong with 4 games… when ps3 is released here next month will i be able to play games that are sold here in new zealand>
February 13th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Just wondering if anybody has found out if the PS3 wil played any region dvd’s . I know it will be limited to strict regions on Blue ray dvds and region free on games but was hoping to find out about normal dvds . Any ideas ?
August 5th, 2007 at 12:57 am
My PS3 appears to be one of those that is not region free. Will I have to return it and get another one?
December 13th, 2007 at 9:26 am
I have bought my PS3 in middle east and I imported many Blurays from USA and they all have been OK till Pirates of the Caribbean 3.So three is a region coding on these stupid things. I believe HD-DVD will not region code….If bluray are clever, they better switch the region coding off cause all will head off the other route. (Including me)
August 14th, 2008 at 10:08 am
@ Gerry:
Sorry, Sony lied!!!